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Sensation
Perception
Memory
Language
Development
100
The conversion of a stimulus to an electrical signal.
What is transduction?
100
This theory explains how we perceive things in terms of opponent color pairs.
What is Opponent Process Theory of Color Vision?
100
The process that transfers information from sensory memory to short-term memory.
What is attention?
100
The term for the sounds of a language.
What is phoneme?
100
The stage of Piaget's theory of development where children have not yet developed object permanence.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
200
This theory states that color vision is based on three primary colors - blue, green and red.
What is the Trichromatic Theory of Color Vision?
200
This vision impairment occurs when one cone is missing.
What is colorblindness or dichromatic vision?
200
The type of sensory memory that represents your visual sense.
What is iconic memory?
200

The average age when children are ably to say their first word.

What is 10-12 months?
200

The gradual removal of help from a knowledgeable adult as children learn new tasks.

What is scaffolding?
300
The part of the ear that transmits sound from the ear canal to the middle ear and cochlea.
What is timpanic membrane (ear drum)?
300
These principles describe a set of cues that help us group features or parts into whole objects.
What is Gestalt Principles of Grouping?
300
The type of interference where new information inhibits old information.
What is retroactive interference?
300
The set of rules for how words should be put together
What is syntax?
300

The average age when children are able to sit up without assistance

What is 5-6 months?
400
The part of the eye that transmits visual signals to the rest of the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
400
The type of processing that is driven primarily by concepts, beliefs or expectations.
What is top-down processing?
400
Sensory memory has a ____________ capacity and a _________ duration.
What is large and short?
400

The average age when children are able to formulate meaningful, two-word phrases.

What is 2 years old?
400
The stage at which centration, or, focusing on only the most obvious feature of an object or situation, occurs.
What is the Preoperational Stage?
500
The type of photoreceptor most active during bright light.
What are cones?
500
The monocular depth cue that suggests that closer objects block further ones.
What is interposition?
500
The number of pieces of information that can be stored in short-term memory.
What is 7 +/- 2 pieces of information?
500
The time where we lose the ability to discriminate phonemes in any language.
What is after the first year?
500
The reflex in infants where the toes fan out after the sole of the foot is stroked.
What is the Babinski reflex?